3 This section demonstrates the axis subsystem of the graph module. The axes
4 delegate a lot of tasks to different components like ''painters'' (which
5 control how the baseline of the axis, the ticks and the axis title is drawn),
6 ''texters'' (which create the label strings written on the ticks), ''parters''
7 (short for partionioners, which take care of determining appropriate tick
8 positions along the axis, and ''raters'' (which adjust the number of ticks to
9 match the available size).
11 In the present section, we will explain various basic aspects of these
12 components. Most of the time, the examples will not show a complete graph but
13 just a single axis. In that case, we will take an axis created along an
14 arbitrary path, partially in order to demonstrate the flexibility of PyX's axis
15 system but also too increase the coolness factor. Of course, in a real-world
16 example, you will use the shown features mostly for simple, boring, straight